Treading water

[mtbc]

Naturally one's life is a balance between what one must do and what one wants to do. Lately I am not doing quite as well as I would like in that balance: I take some relaxing time for myself but thus barely stay on top of even simple tasks. For example, it has taken quite a while for me to post to Gumtree advertising some rather old desktop computers for which we no longer have room. I made a bootable live image on a USB flash drive, brought some old-computer-related items down from the attic, brought the computers in from the garage, used the live image to check their hardware and wipe their hard drives, lost my screwdriver, found it again, photographed them, and today finally posted about them. Those steps largely happened quite separately over the course of many days: I am hardly single-mindedly focused on a mission, I instead make small advancements on the rare occasions on which I feel inclined. My ambitions tomorrow don't go much beyond spraying some glyphosate on weeds outdoors and deltamethrin around where creatures may enter the house, and trimming my nails. So, I do some useful things at home, perhaps sufficient but it hardly feels encouraging or inspiring.

Comments

[emperor]

I certainly have periods like that - it's easy to be sufficiently busy and/or stressed that there's never time/effort to do things that you want to make progress on. I've taken to trying to have a chunk of time "off" each week; even if I do nothing with it, it seems to help me be more motivated at other times.

[mtbc]

I have at least been trying to indulge the feeling of not wanting to do much at the times that strikes, today being a good example; I am perhaps thus getting too little done, but also work has maybe been busier lately than it is on average because my latest task has been among the trickier.